Too Early. Bah!
The Girl had tummy troubles last night. From the top of her loft bed. I'll allow the world at large to use their imagination on that one.
So, it's Sunday morning, it's only just past 8AM and I'm awake. Oh, the great little joys that life brings. She is, of course, curled up with her favorite blanket and a pillow, and sleeping soundly again. I'm pondering my second cup of tea.
At least this has put aside any excuses to delay in getting started on doing laundry. (Explanation of the icon? DH and I standing around looking at each other in The Girl's room, and going "Are you going to clean that up?" In the end, we double-teamed it, but I completely expected a challenge of rock-paper-scissors at any moment.)
In other news, I (finally) got around to watching "Merlin" last night, "The Tears of Uther Pendragon (Part II)". I love that show so much. No, it's not the greatest fantasy genre show ever made, and there are plot gaps, but I can't help but really enjoy it.
Yesterday,
paperhearts talked about the Unpopular Female Character Love Post, and one of the characters is Guinevere from Merlin. I'm not active in Merlin fandom, so I didn't realize that there was Gwen-hate. Of course, I probably should have because a) Gwen is made of awesome and b) she's a threat to the true love between Merlin and Arthur. Yes, in Arthurian legend, Guinevere was the woman who supposedly brought about the downfall of Camelot (I'd lay some blame on the shoulder of Lancelot as well, not to mention the fact that a king couldn't handle the betrayal without losing his mojo and really, Mordred figures in there somewhere, but I digress. ..) but Gwen right now is not that Queen. And given the loose play that the show gives to Arthurian legend, even if Gwen does follow that route, I think that it will at least have been shown that she does truly love Arthur.
I love the moments between them, the way that spark haunts them. Even though Gwen tries to remind herself (and Arthur) that she is a servant and put that distance between them, it's really half-hearted at best. She gives him counsel and speaks to him as friend, and they lower the class wall when no one else is around. They crossed a line last season, and no matter how they try, they'll never go back to where they were.
I also stayed up way past my bedtime watching episode 3x01 of (the Real) Being Human. Yes, I mean the UK version. Oh Mitchell! Call me crazy and tell me I'm seeing things, but there is a depth of feeling there between Mitchell and Annie that goes beyond friendship. Yes, George missed her too, and he cried when he thought Mitchell came back without her (mean trick to play on George, you cads!), but those long hugs between the pair, and the way they looked at one another . . . something is simmering beneath the surface. Whether or not it will come to a head, I don't know, but you'd have to be blind to deny that it's there.
Not sure what the other werewolves were about, except that maybe they like to kill vampires? And Lia's whole prediction about Mitchell's death?
Oh, I've missed you Being Human. My Being Human, not this parody of Mitchell, George and Annie that airs on Syfy (and has gotten enough encores to make me want to hurl.)
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So, it's Sunday morning, it's only just past 8AM and I'm awake. Oh, the great little joys that life brings. She is, of course, curled up with her favorite blanket and a pillow, and sleeping soundly again. I'm pondering my second cup of tea.
At least this has put aside any excuses to delay in getting started on doing laundry. (Explanation of the icon? DH and I standing around looking at each other in The Girl's room, and going "Are you going to clean that up?" In the end, we double-teamed it, but I completely expected a challenge of rock-paper-scissors at any moment.)
In other news, I (finally) got around to watching "Merlin" last night, "The Tears of Uther Pendragon (Part II)". I love that show so much. No, it's not the greatest fantasy genre show ever made, and there are plot gaps, but I can't help but really enjoy it.
Yesterday,
paperhearts talked about the Unpopular Female Character Love Post, and one of the characters is Guinevere from Merlin. I'm not active in Merlin fandom, so I didn't realize that there was Gwen-hate. Of course, I probably should have because a) Gwen is made of awesome and b) she's a threat to the true love between Merlin and Arthur. Yes, in Arthurian legend, Guinevere was the woman who supposedly brought about the downfall of Camelot (I'd lay some blame on the shoulder of Lancelot as well, not to mention the fact that a king couldn't handle the betrayal without losing his mojo and really, Mordred figures in there somewhere, but I digress. ..) but Gwen right now is not that Queen. And given the loose play that the show gives to Arthurian legend, even if Gwen does follow that route, I think that it will at least have been shown that she does truly love Arthur.
I love the moments between them, the way that spark haunts them. Even though Gwen tries to remind herself (and Arthur) that she is a servant and put that distance between them, it's really half-hearted at best. She gives him counsel and speaks to him as friend, and they lower the class wall when no one else is around. They crossed a line last season, and no matter how they try, they'll never go back to where they were.
I also stayed up way past my bedtime watching episode 3x01 of (the Real) Being Human. Yes, I mean the UK version. Oh Mitchell! Call me crazy and tell me I'm seeing things, but there is a depth of feeling there between Mitchell and Annie that goes beyond friendship. Yes, George missed her too, and he cried when he thought Mitchell came back without her (mean trick to play on George, you cads!), but those long hugs between the pair, and the way they looked at one another . . . something is simmering beneath the surface. Whether or not it will come to a head, I don't know, but you'd have to be blind to deny that it's there.
Not sure what the other werewolves were about, except that maybe they like to kill vampires? And Lia's whole prediction about Mitchell's death?
Oh, I've missed you Being Human. My Being Human, not this parody of Mitchell, George and Annie that airs on Syfy (and has gotten enough encores to make me want to hurl.)
This entry was originally posted at http://fikgirl.dreamwidth.org/185256.html. If you have a Dreamwidth account, please comment there using that account. If you don't have a Dreamwidth account, please comment there using OpenID.